Category: Technology

Unless you are an uber-minimalist who installs the bare minimum number of programs required to get your job done, chances are that your Windows boot time is being slowed down by a large number of programs that launch at startup simultaneously. However, many such applications, like your antivirus, Google Talk and other messengers, Skype etc. […]

One of Android’s best parts is its web browser, that seems to get a unanimous “it works” from everyone who uses it. To alleviate concerns about privacy, most internet users clear up their web browsing history periodically. All modern web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc.) have menu options devoted to this. You might want to […]

I have been using an FTP client to upload article images for this site by hand for years now. Recently, my FTP client started giving me some error, and I wanted to upload a few images urgently. I turned to WordPress’ built-in uploader. It showed “Crunching…” for a few seconds and then gave the following […]

Google Chrome has rocketed to popularity quickly, thanks to its speed, minimalistic design that allows you to focus on webpages to the maximum, and of course Google’s backing. Chrome is being developed at a furious pace, going through version numbers very quickly. They introduced silent automatic updates to the browser. This is a welcome feature […]

Windows has always been messy with its online activation and authentication tools, including the much maligned Windows Genuine Advantage(WGA) suite of tools, online product license key activation systems. Yet another error thrown up by Windows is 0xC004C008, which sometimes appears when you activate Windows 7 online. 0xC004C008 error causes complete failure of Windows online activation, […]

Facebook users can trim and clean their wall feeds (or activity streams) by removing items or revoking permission of a user or app to post to the wall. This is easy to do – hit the ‘x’ next to a post and you can remove the item, block it for ever etc. This ease of […]

YouTube is the most popular video sharing website. It has a clean interface and millions of videos uploaded by users. However, if you are a video publisher, you might have felt the need to upload multiple videos. The web interface to upload videos to YouTube is great for publishing the occasional single file, which is […]

Have you ever wanted to schedule SMS to be sent in future? A text message to your friend or relative on a special occasion, perhaps? SMS Wishes is a free Android app that does this – schedule SMS in advance, to be sent at a specified time and date. If you are one of those […]

Users are being migrated to the new Facebook profile, and I, for one, am not a fan of the new profile. Seeing as how it is here to stay, we will have to adjust with it. The row of tagged photos on top of my profile is not exactly my favorite feature, as I cannot […]

WLM 2011 seems to have brought with it a new problem for at least some users: all contacts appear offline all the time. This seems to be independent of Windows Live network, as users of Live Messenger logged in to Yahoo Messenger also experience the same.One has to assume that the fault lies with Windows […]